When Facebook launched its Places feature last year, which allowed users of the social network to announce their location to friends, Chris Cox, a top executive there, waxed rhapsodic about what it ...

Following Facebook’s announcement today about its new location-based product, Places, here’s what the ACLU of Northern California has to say on the privacy front: Facebook made some changes to its ...

Facebook Places allows users to check-in to locations using a mobile phone, much like Foursquare, Gowalla, or Yelp. But up until recently the feature was only available in a handful of countries ...

Facebook recently added a new feature that allows users to take advantage of location-based postings. So great—corporate brands are benefiting from the emphasis on location. But how can you use ...

Facebook has introduced a new feature called Places and like everything Facebook seems to do lately it leaves us all feeling a little more paranoid and less secure than we did before. The thought of ...

Thus far, the new Facebook app only offers members the ability to share their exact geographic location with friends and family on their contact list -- or with the whole Internet -- at any given ...

Facebook has just released an updated version of its iPhone app which adds the ability to check in to events. Whereas previously, the app only allows you to check in via Facebook Places, the new ...

The one thing all existing location based apps have over Facebook Places the social network's recent experiment into the location based sector is a sense of personality. While it might be easy to ...

Facebook have announced that they will be integrating location-aware features into their social network. Facebook Places will hit as a new iPhone app for US users from Thursday, rolling out to all 500 ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new Facebook Places location-based check-in service at a press event yesterday. Following in the footsteps of services like Foursquare and Gowalla, the ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places. "This is going to be a really fun and interesting ...

While the ACLU of Northern California and Facebook both agree that location information is very sensitive, we disagree that Places gives users adequate control of how and when to share this ...